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The new arc of India-Australia collaboration
International Affairs Oct 22, 2025

The new arc of India-Australia collaboration

Key defence agreements will result in a shared, stable and more routine model of cooperation ...

Beyond Bars and Towers: Building Meaningful Connectivity in the North East
Connectivity Oct 22, 2025

Beyond Bars and Towers: Building Meaningful Connectivity in the North East

India’s North East risks digital isolation as poor infrastructure, weak audits, and low-quality access undermine its inclusion in the nation’s digital rise. ...

Maritime Museums as Custodians of Ocean Memory
Maritime Security Oct 22, 2025

Maritime Museums as Custodians of Ocean Memory

By preserving ocean memory and highlighting the knowledge of coastal communities, museums play a crucial role in shaping an inclusive, sustainable, and people-centred blue economy for the 21st century ...

Cities, Lifestyles, and Autoimmunity: Policy Considerations for India
Healthcare | Climate, Food and Environment Oct 21, 2025

Cities, Lifestyles, and Autoimmunity: Policy Considerations for India

As India urbanises, pollution, stress, and processed diets are fuelling autoimmune diseases—demanding policy that links city design to health. ...

Africa’s Urban Future Needs Climate-Smart Food Systems
Climate, Food and Environment | Urbanisation Oct 22, 2025

Africa’s Urban Future Needs Climate-Smart Food Systems

As Africa urbanises amid a warming climate, climate-smart food systems offer a path to resilience, sustainability, and shared prosperity. ...

Diffusing Tolerance: The UAE’s Soft Power Through Migration
International Affairs Oct 21, 2025

Diffusing Tolerance: The UAE’s Soft Power Through Migration

The UAE’s tolerance agenda functions not merely as a domestic social policy but as a transnational strategy that diffuses values of coexistence across the region through its large Middle Eastern migrant population. ...

Chinese Whispers and the Global Intelligence Landscape
International Affairs Oct 20, 2025

Chinese Whispers and the Global Intelligence Landscape

Two separate cases underscore one of the most serious challenges that open democracies are facing today in managing Chinese aggressive tactics when it comes to influence operations. ...

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Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy

Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy

Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy is an Associate Fellow with the Strategic Studies Programme’s Neighbourhood Studies Initiative.  He focuses on strategic and security-related developments in the South Asian region, with a specific interest in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Bhutan.  His research work ...

Read More + Harsh V. Pant

Harsh V. Pant

Professor Harsh V. Pant is Vice President – Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is a Professor of International Relations with King's India Institute at King’s College London. He is also Director (Honorary) of Delhi ...

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